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Bullet 1: as medical companies core businesses and skills set are totally different. Substantial cross sector understanding and customer support is required. Bullet 3: Insurance and health reimbursement system for Telehealth services remains a key enabler of business modelBullet 4Human benefit and market potential is huge, and would enable new ways to manage health, disease and life-style

and dashboards reducing Healthcare challenge as well as time to market.

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mHealth Market & Growth<br />Healthcare is a critical issue globally – demand is increasing, costs are rising, population is aging<br />Significant gains (cost, quality of care) to be had using wireless technology through remote monitoring of chronic disease conditions<br />73% of consumers in US are ready to use remote care monitoring services (PWC)<br />Wireless Healthcare Revenue forecast (2010-2013 US) US$596 Million to US$4.4 Billion (2009 Parks Associates)<br />

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mHealth Issues and Opportunities<br />Wireless broadband implementation and applications are complex to develop and deploy<br />Insurance and health reimbursement system for Telehealth services remains a key enabler of the business model<br />Enormous long term benefits and market potential, may enable new ways to manage health, disease and life-style<br />Regulatory agencies can be stringent, differ from country to country, and make it extremely complex to structure an open mHealth platform<br />

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mHealth Platforms<br />Early FDA 510k cleared Telemedicine based on vital sign measurement and Store/Forward data transfer<br />Performing well based on intended task<br />Closed system and not programmable<br />Limited to single device, not covering multiple use cases<br />Costly<br />Ecosystem offers a wide variety of user interfaces, applications, services and devices<br />Main challenge for Heath provider is to integrate the technology and still be FDA 510k cleared <br />

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Open platform model<br />Configurable and programmable to support new services or applications<br />Able to integrate multiple devices from different manufacturers, patient interfaces, medical apps and content in common HIPPA, FDA cleared database and dashboard<br />“Open yet controlled” is the challenge to meet FDA 510K cleared criteria<br />

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Open & Controlled<br />Controlled environment means platform provider is able to FDA clear the application tool structure by which the application is built<br />Very little or no FDA required for new apps<br />New devices are FDA cleared by device manufacturer <br />Control the release of apps on app store to ensure interoperability between 3rd party apps and devices<br />